Albert Gallatin JENKINS

(1830-1864)

JENKINS, Albert Gallatin,
a Representative from Virginia; born in Cabell County, Va.,
November 10, 1830; was graduated from Jefferson College,
Canonsburg, Pa., in 1848 and from Harvard Law School in 1850; was
admitted to the bar in 1850, but engaged in agricultural pursuits;
delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1856; elected as
a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses (March
4, 1857-March 3, 1861); delegate to the Confederate Provisional
Congress in 1861; enlisted in the Confederate Army; appointed
brigadier general August 1, 1862; wounded in the Battle of Cloyds
Mountain, near Dublin, Va., May 9, 1864, and died May 21, 1864;
interment in New Dublin Presbyterian Cemetery; reinterred after the
close of the war at his home in Green Valley, near Huntington,
W.Va.; again reinterred in the Confederate plot in Spring Hill
Cemetery, Huntington, W.Va.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present